--- title: A boarding school is a school where pupils live during term and go h… — Rich families: the big house, the nanny and neve… · tree and pragmatics description: A boarding school is a school where pupils live during term and go home at weekends or in the holidays; children feel all kinds of things about it. Who acts: boarding school, pupils, children. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (boarding school, pupils, children), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:everyday:491-rich-families-the-big-house-the-nanny-and-never-seeing-dad.lesson:36 # text = A boarding school is a school where pupils live during term and go home at weekends or in the holidays; children feel all kinds of things about it. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = everyday # lesson = 491-rich-families-the-big-house-the-nanny-and-never-seeing-dad.lesson # annotation = Mova annot: Rust (en) → Haiku 5.5 (medium, Batches API) patches; gates UD 2.18; agreed by treeagree rules (Stanza, Trankit, spaCy trf): R8-pos-agree ×1 1 A a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 2 boarding boarding NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 compound _ _ 3 school school NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 nsubj _ _ 4 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 6 cop _ _ 5 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 6 det _ _ 6 school school NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ 7 where where ADV WRB PronType=Rel 9 advmod _ _ 8 pupils pupil NOUN NNS Number=Plur 9 nsubj _ _ 9 live live VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 6 acl:relcl _ _ 10 during during ADP IN _ 11 case _ _ 11 term term NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 obl _ _ 12 and and CCONJ CC _ 13 cc _ _ 13 go go VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 9 conj _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=9:conj|HaikuPos=VERB:VB:VerbForm=Inf 14 home home ADV RB _ 13 advmod _ _ 15 at at ADP IN _ 16 case _ _ 16 weekends weekend NOUN NNS Number=Plur 13 obl _ _ 17 or or CCONJ CC _ 20 cc _ _ 18 in in ADP IN _ 20 case _ _ 19 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 20 det _ _ 20 holidays holiday NOUN NNS Number=Plur 16 conj _ _ 21 ; ; PUNCT : _ 23 punct _ _ 22 children child NOUN NNS Number=Plur 23 nsubj _ _ 23 feel feel VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 6 parataxis _ _ 24 all all DET DT PronType=Tot 25 det _ _ 25 kinds kind NOUN NNS Number=Plur 23 obj _ _ 26 of of ADP IN _ 27 case _ _ 27 things thing NOUN NNS Number=Plur 25 nmod _ _ 28 about about ADP IN _ 29 case _ _ 29 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 27 nmod _ _ 30 . . PUNCT . _ 6 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: assert - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: changed act=assert | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is a** | present | a boarding school | a school | | | | | tree rules | | 2 | **live** | present | pupils | | | | during term | | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 3 | **go** | present | pupils *not said here* | | | | weekend | home *property* | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 4 | **feel** | present | children | all kinds of things about school | | | | | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent kind=Theme | One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree. **Licence: [CC BY-SA 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/)**, as the whole of Mova corpus 0.4, of which this treebank (the agreed school, `mova-school-agreed-en.conllu`) is part. The lessons were written for Mova's primary school. Sentence `school:everyday:491-rich-families-the-big-house-the-nanny-and-never-seeing-dad.lesson:36`. **The tree:** Mova annot: Rust (en) → Haiku 5.5 (medium, Batches API) patches; gates UD 2.18; agreed by treeagree rules (Stanza, Trankit, spaCy trf): R8-pos-agree ×1. **The frames** are read from the tree by Mova's frames reader (`prag`) when this page is built, the lesson read in order, so a pronoun may be resolved from an earlier sentence. 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